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What end-to-end encryption is, and why you need it

Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:36:57 +0000

We explain for laypeople what end-to-end encryption is and how it enables private, secure communication for us all.

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How to launch malicious macros unnoticed on macOS

August 27, 2020 admin Attacks, black hat, black hat 2020, Business, enterprise, MacOS, sandbox, SMB, Threats

Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:01:23 +0000

Researcher Patrick Wardle has demonstrated how a chain of exploits can be successfully used to attack macOS Catalina.

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Common mistakes when assessing cyberrisks

August 20, 2020 admin black hat, black hat 2020, Business, enterprise, research, risk assessment, SMB

Credit to Author: Hugh Aver| Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:06:38 +0000

When calculating potential losses from cyberincidents, statistical data is just as important as its interpretations.

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Black Hat Trip Report – Trend Micro

August 18, 2020 admin black hat, IIoT, Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, Security

Credit to Author: erinj| Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:00:05 +0000

At Black Hat USA 2020, Trend Micro presented two important talks on vulnerabilities in Industrial IoT (IIoT). The first discussed weaknesses in proprietary languages used by industrial robots, and the second talked about vulnerabilities in protocol gateways. Any organization using robots, and any organization running a multi-vendor OT environment, should be aware of these attack…

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Lamphone: A new kind of “visual eavesdropping”

August 14, 2020 admin air gap, black hat, black hat 2020, espionage, lamphone, sound, Technology

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:47:59 +0000

A lightbulb is all the specialist equipment Lamphone needed to eavesdrop on a conversation in a soundproofed room.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2020 Edition

August 11, 2020 admin adobe acrobat, Adobe Reader, black hat, cve-2020-1048, cve-2020-1337, cve-2020-1380, cve-2020-1464, cve-2020-1472, dustin childs, internet explorer zero-day, Latest Warnings, microsoft patch tuesday august 2020, Other, Satnam Narang, Tenable, Time to Patch, trend micro zero day initiative

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:55:02 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 120 security holes in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including two newly discovered vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited. Yes, good people of the Windows world, it’s time once again to backup and patch up!

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